Objectives: Students will explore the sums of angles of triangles and quadrilaterals. Students will be able to find the measurement of an unknown angle of a triangle or a quadrilateral.
Materials: GSP file and worksheet
NAME:_________________________
Instructions: Open and use the GSP file "trianglesums" for questions 1 - 4.
1. For Triangle XYZ, find the measurement for each of its angles.
X = _____
Y = _____
Z = _____
Classify this triangle by its angle measurements. __________________
What do you get if you find the sum of the three angles of this triangle? _________
2. For Triangle TUV, find the measurement for each of its angles.
T = _____
U = _____
V = _____
Classify this triangle by its angle measurements. __________________
What do you get if you find the sum of the three angles of this triangle? _________
3. For Triangle QRS, find the measurement for each of its angles.
Q = _____
R = _____
S = _____
Classify this triangle by its angle measurements. __________________
What do you suspect about the sum of the angles in this triangle?
What do you get if you find the sum of the three angles of this triangle? _________
4. Now look at Triangle LMN. What conjecture do you have about the sum of the angles? Write a complete sentence!
Verify your conjecture using the measurements of the angles.
Instructions: Open the GSP file "quadsums" to answer questions 5 - 8.
5. For Quadrilateral ABCD, find the measurements for each of its angles.
A = _____
B = _____
C = _____
D = _____
Find the sum of the four angles of this quadrilateral. What is it?__________
6. For Quadrilateral EFGH, find the measurements of each of its angles.
E = _____
F = _____
G = _____
H = _____
What is the sum of the four angles?_________
7. What do you suspect about the sum of the angles of Quadrilateral IJKL?
Find the measurements of the angles to help verify your suspicions.
8. Show that the sum of the angles of Quadrilateral
MNOP is 360 degrees.
9. How would you find the measurement
of an unknown angle in a triangle if the other two angle measurements
are known?
10. How would you find the measurement
of an unknown angle in a quadrilateral if the other three angle
measurements are known?
Instructions: Find the measurement of each unknown angle. Assume
all angle measurements are in degrees.
